[Tyler Black]

Thank you, everyone, for your time in replying and offering suggestions. For this particular project I used the FreeForm effect as I have CS6. It worked very nicely.

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!

Ty Black

[Tyler Black]

Johnny,

Thanks for the reply. It’s nothing nearly as complicated as you described. I’m using a stock image of dollar bills. It’s for a 30 second spot and the effect will last about 3 seconds. It’s representational of a bank lending money. It’s over the top tongue in cheek and not realistic at all. I just want to bend this 2D image of dollar bills in an “s” curve over a hill on the z axis so it looks like the money is rushing at the camera.

[Tyler Black]

I will be glad to offer the shot to anyone that wants to take a crack at it. Contact me at tylerb@bokehfv.com and I will email you a link to the shot.

Thank you for your interest.

[Tyler Black]

I’ll do my best to recall the processes that I’ve tried.

I ‘m working in Motion 3. I’m using 4k RED One footage which will be projected 2k… plenty of room for stabilization.

I have tried simply applying “stabilization” to the shot.
I tried taking the results of the above effort, rendered that into another clip, and ran that 2nd clip through “stabilize” again.
I tried taking a still of the first frame and put it on layer one. Then on layer two I put my shaky shot. I applied a “match move” to the shaky shot using markers placed on the still. You would think the shaky shot would try to hold the markers on their points… but they floated way off.
I tried, 1, 2, and 3 tracking markers on a “stabilize” behavior.
I tried doing a four-corner pin with “mimic source.”
I even tried manually adjusting each of the four corners to match the still underneath and placed key frames every 6 frames.
I tried “stabilize” and “smooth.”